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- PRUNUSA type of traditional decoration on porcelain that depicts the leaves and branches of the Chinese plum, Prunus mume.
- PSEPHOLOGIESThe predictive or statistical study of elections.
- PSEPHOLOGYThe predictive or statistical study of elections.
- PUBERTYA developmental phase brought about by the action of hormones as part of the maturing process. For humans, there are three in total. The process of sexual development that produces
- PUBERULENTCovered in soft, downy hairs.
- PUBESplural of pubis (“pubic bones”)
- PUBESCENTAt or just after the age of puberty.
- PUBISThe pubic bone; the part of the hipbone forming the front arch of the pelvis.
- PUBISESThe pubic bone; the part of the hipbone forming the front arch of the pelvis.
- PUBLICATIONThe act of publishing printed or other matter.
- PUBLICITYAdvertising or other activity designed to rouse public interest in something.
- PUBLISHTo issue (something, such as printed work) for distribution and/or sale.
- PUCEA brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.
- PUDENCYModesty.
- PUDIBUNDShy, bashful; prudish.
- PUDICEasily ashamed, having a strong sense of shame; modest, chaste.
- PUDICITYModesty; chastity.
- PUDORAn appropriate sense of modesty or shame.
- PUEBLOA community in Spain or Spanish America, especially one of Pueblo Indians living in a stone or adobe multi-storey building.
- PUERILEChildish; trifling; silly.
- PUERILITYThe state, quality, or condition of being childish or puerile.
- PUGILAs much as is taken up between the thumb and two first fingers; a pinch.
- PUGNACIOUSNaturally aggressive or hostile; combative; belligerent; bellicose.
- PUGNACITYThe act or characteristic of being aggressive or combative.
- PULCHRITUDEPhysical beauty.
- PULLETA young hen, especially one less than a year old.
- PULMONATEHaving lungs or similar organs.
- PULMONICOf, pertaining to, or produced by the lungs.
- PULPA soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. A mixture of wood, cellulose and/or rags and water ground up to make paper. A mass of chemically processed wood fibres (cellulose). A suspe
- PULPITA raised platform in a church, sometimes enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon; also, the lectern on such a platform.
- PULPITUMA massive, often decorative screen of stone or timber that divides the choir from the nave and ambulatory in medieval cathedrals and monastic churches.
- PULSATETo expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat, exhibit a pulse.
- PULSATIONThe regular throbbing of the heart, an artery etc. in a living body; the pulse.
- PULSATIVECharacterised by pulsing or beating; throbbing.
- PULSATORAny pulsating astronomical object
- PULSIONThe act of driving forward; propulsion.
- PULTACEOUSMacerated; softened; nearly fluid; gloopy
- PULVERPowder.
- PULVERINEashes of barilla
- PULVERISETo render into dust or powder.
- PULVEROUSResembling or consisting of dust or powder.
- PULVINARA prominence on the posterior part of the thalamus of the human brain.
- PULVINATECurved convexly or swelled.
- PULVINUSA joint on a plant leaf or petiole that may swell and cause movement of the leaf or leaflet.
- PUMICEA light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into water or air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbl
- PUMICEOUSOf or pertaining to pumice; resembling pumice.
- PUMPIONPumpkin.
- PUNCHA hit or strike with one's fist.
- PUNCTATEMarked by spots, dots, points, or punctures.
- PUNCTATIONA preliminary treaty or contract.
- PUNCTILIOA fine point in exactness of conduct, ceremony, etiquette or procedure.
- PUNCTUALPrompt; on time. Of an event, happening at the appointed time. Of a person, acting at the appointed time.
- PUNCTUATETo add punctuation to.
- PUNCTUMA sharp tip of any part of the anatomy; a point or other small area.
- PUNCTUREThe act or an instance of puncturing.
- PUNISHTo cause (a child, student, or someone else being looked after, or a suspect or criminal) to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action, typically by an auth
- PUNITIVEInflicting punishment; punishing.
- PUNTYA metal rod used in the glassblowing process. After a glass vessel has been blown to approximate size and the bottom of the piece has been finalized, the rod, which is tipped with
- PUPAUsed as a specific epithet; resembling an insect in its pupal stage of development.
- PUPARIUMAn enclosing case of a pupa that is formed from the exoskeleton of an insect's final stage before pupation.
- PUPILLARITYThe period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females
- PUPILLARYOf or pertaining to person below a certain legal age, or to a ward.
- PURFLEAn ornamental border on clothing, furniture or a violin; beading, stringing.
- PURGATIONThe process or act of purging, such as by the use of a purgative.
- PURGETo clean thoroughly; to rid of impurities; to cleanse; to clear of (something unwanted).
- PURIFYTo cleanse, or rid of impurities.
- PURITYThe state or degree of being pure.
- PURSLANEAny of the family Portulacaceae (order Caryophyllales) of succulent plants. common purslane or summer purslane (Portulaca oleracea), a widely-grown edible plant moss-rose purslane,
- PURSUETo follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase.
- PURULENTConsisting of pus.
- PURVEYTo prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.
- PURVIEWThe enacting part of a statute.
- PUSHTo apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
- PUSTULEA small accumulation of pus in the epidermis or dermis.
- PUTAMENThe shell of a nut; the stone of a drupe fruit; endocarp.
- PUTATIVECommonly believed or deemed to be the case; generally assumed.
- PUTEALAn enclosure around a well to prevent people from falling into it.
- PUTIDrotten; fetid; stinking; base; worthless
- PUTREFACTIONThe act of causing to rot; the anaerobic splitting of proteins by bacteria and fungi with the formation of malodorous, incompletely oxidized products.
- PUTRESCENTBecoming putrid; putrefying.
- PUTRESCIBLEDecomposable; capable of becoming putrescent; rottable.
- PUTRESCINEA diamine, NH2(CH2)4NH2 (1,4-diaminobutane or butanediamine), produced by the breakdown of amino acids in living and dead organisms.
- PUTRIDRotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction.
- PYCNIDIUMIn certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores are produced.
- PYGIDIUMThe caudal plate of trilobites, crustacea, and certain insects.
- PYRAMIDALPyramid-shaped. Tetragonal.
- PYRAMIDIONThe small pyramid which crowns or completes an obelisk or pyramid.
- PYXISA small box.
- QUADRANGLESynonym of quadrilateral (“a polygon with four sides”).
- QUADRANSA bronze coin of the Roman republic worth one quarter of an as.
- QUADRANTOne of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines.
- QUADRATAn area of land, marked for studying its plants, animals, soil, natural processes, etc.
- QUADRATEHaving four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
- QUADRATUSAny of several roughly square or rectangular muscles, e.g. in the abdomen, thigh, and eye socket.
- QUADRICEPSA muscle having four heads, especially the large extensor at the front of the thigh.
- QUADRIGAA Roman racing chariot drawn by four horses abreast.
- QUADRIVIALAny of the four "liberal arts" making up the quadrivium.
- QUADRIVIUMThe higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music.
- QUADROONA person considered three-fourths white, having one non-white grandparent.
- QUADRUMANEHaving four limbs with hand-like extremities and opposable digits; quadrumanous; loosely, "ape-like".